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Have you heard of 50 Cent's alias Pimpin' Curly? What about his sex tape?

By Staff, Associated Press

Posted:
01/03/2014 09:45:42 AM EST

In this Oct. 26, 2011 file photo, Rapper and businessman Curtis Jackson III, known as 50 Cent, poses during an interview in New York. Rapper 50 Cent has lost a bid to end a Florida woman's lawsuit over a sex video posted online with him edited into it as a wig-wearing narrator. In a ruling made public Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, a Manhattan judge rebuffed the rapper's request to dismiss Lastonia Leviston's suit. Lawyers for both sides haven't immediately returned calls. (Richard Drew/AP)

Rapper 50 Cent has lost a bid to end a Florida woman's lawsuit over a sex video posted online with him edited into it as a wig-wearing narrator.

A New York judge rebuffed the rapper's request to dismiss Lastonia Leviston's claim in a ruling made public Thursday. Lawyers for both sides haven't returned calls seeking comment.

The lawsuit concerns a videotape Leviston made with a boyfriend in 2008. The judge's decision says the boyfriend later provided the tape to 50 Cent without Leviston's permission.

The rapper used the footage to make a video featuring himself as a character named Pimpin' Curly.

He says he wasn't responsible for the video's 2009 release. But he says it was legally fair to use the images.